Photobooks

[hammerhead man]

Where2next, I am curious how you convert RGB files into CMYK files. Do you do this in Photoshop? If I understand your post correctly, Shutterfly converted my pics to CMYK files before printing them and that's why they turned out so well, is that correct?

Regards,

Bill

 

[jghflash]

I'm going to try this link to my book on Shutterfly see if it works.

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0BZNGzdq1cMXJw

 

[jghflash]

Cool, it worked! If you have a book project on Shutterfly, go to "preview book". There is a "share" icon in the upper left corner, click that. Click "post to other web site" then give it a "title and description", click next. Then click the "get embed photobook widget code". Copy the "permalink" and post in your Scubaboard post.

 

[hammerhead man]

Fantastic. Here is my photo book covering three different trips taken over the last few years: <object width="425" height="425" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"><param name="movie" value="http://images-community.shutterfly.com/flashapps/flashslideshowphotobook/slideshow_pb.swf"/><param name="flashvars" value="xmlURL=http%3A%2F%2Fws.shutterfly.com%2Fpsdata%3FprojectGUID%3D0AaOGbJu2as2VOaA%26uid%3D002035672384%26size%3D0%26ts%3D1259153514000%26height%3D425%26width%3D425&size=0&ob=0&fc=0&ss=0&sb=0&ft=0"/><param name="menu" value="false"/><param name="quality" value="best"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><embed width="425" height="425" align="middle" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" name="wrapper" quality="best" menu="false" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" flashvars="xmlURL=http%3A%2F%2Fws.shutterfly.com%2Fpsdata%3FprojectGUID%3D0AaOGbJu2as2VOaA%26uid%3D002035672384%26size%3D0%26ts%3D1259153514000%26height%3D425%26width%3D425&size=0&ob=0&fc=0&ss=0&sb=0&ft=0" src="http://images-community.shutterfly.com/flashapps/flashslideshowphotobook/slideshow_pb.swf"></embed></object><p style="width:425px;margin-top:0;text-align:center;"><a href="http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0AaOGbJu2as2Tl4&eid=118">Click here to view this photo book larger</a></p> I hope this works.

Regards,

Bill

 

[hammerhead man]

Hmmm, copied the wrong code..... Here is the link: Shutterfly | View share.

Regards,

Bill

 

[Where2Next]

Where2next, I am curious how you convert RGB files into CMYK files. Do you do this in Photoshop? If I understand your post correctly, Shutterfly converted my pics to CMYK files before printing them and that's why they turned out so well, is that correct?

Regards,

Bill

Yes. I change my images in Photoshop. I am assuming Shutterfly converted your RGB files to CYMK, since they did not print washed out. There are also tons of nifty tools in Photoshop that allow you to pull blue out of the images, and adjust the levels, contrast, hues, variations, etc, etc.

Alright I am off to look at the photobook links!

 

[noreastDIVER84]

I have used shutterfly, and snapfish. I prefer snapfish over the two, but I am now setup to do large format printing at home. I work with the Canon EOS 5d camera, so I have photos at 21 megapixels, and a printer that can handle photos double that size. I have done some nice books from prints that I do and have bound them myself. I have been printing on all sorts of media up to 1/8" thick cardstock.

There is a good chance that if certain prints are coming out worse than others that are the same size, that they are printing a RGB formatted file in CMYK format. I have printed the same photos both ways, and have had that happen as well.